Take time to give thanks

Take time to give thanks

EDITOR:

I love America. Do we still celebrate Thanksgiving and remember God’s faithfulness?

On March 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln wrote the following words: “We have been recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!”

When we stop thanking God for His provision, we end up forgetting Him altogether.

Wake up, America; 146 years later, this still applies.

ERMA NIEMI

North Lima